Judge, 1909-01-23 · page 5 of 16
Judge — January 23, 1909 — page 5: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
The top section, "Letting the Water-Wagon Freeze," shows a comic sequence about winter and temperance. Characters discuss a "water-wagon" (slang for abstinence from alcohol), with jokes about staying dry in winter and prohibitions on whiskey. The "Rare Attitudes" section features Miss Annie Peck, a mountaineer who climbed high peaks. The text humorously notes she works without male climbers and breathes thin air by drawing breath twice—satirizing both her mountaineering achievements and perhaps contemporary attitudes toward women in physically demanding pursuits. "Taking in the Stranger" depicts a street scene where a child asks about his father's lunch money (seven francs), with cynical humor about poverty and financial hardship—likely referencing working-class struggles in the period.
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Wir | 1 1, Slar—“T tell yew, Jonathan, yew will 2. Jonathan—* Gol durn p never git a dry county by votin’ a wet whiskers! they ’re friz fast to mine.” ticket.” RARE ALTITUDES. ISS ANNIE PECK has been shin- i ins again, She says her greatest handicap in this avocation of hers is the fact that she has to take along mere men, and that one or another of them sick or scared and climbed alma th Americ: ve to draw in your in succession be- Our reporter with Miss I edition writes that the only way they managed to d i k after climbing it was by sliding down the tropic icorn, which luckily passed exactly over the ‘end from one inacces- “T've had to discharge the nurse ; she dropped another ey?” “TAKING IN ‘THE STRANGER.” h did your father say the lunch w« n'sieur; and I'm not to take hack any of the bad change he gave you for the cigars!" comicbooks.com